Radio Free California Episode 2416, radio station notes, cheap shots and more!

 

Quite the list of new music this week, including English Teacher, Avi Kaplan, Bridget Kearney, Mark Knopfler, Airbag, Sikane, Nia ARchive, Metz, Bad Bad Hats, Orville Peck with Willie Nelson and much more. Enjoy!

ROTATING OUT: SONGS LEAVING RADIO FREE CALIFORNIA

This means the music that is aging out is from Radio Free California Episode 2316. This includes music from what was then the new album from Metallica, along with The Linda Lindas, Temples, Magaziine, Geoff Castellucci, GoGo Penguin, The Tallest Man on Earth, Fruit Bats and much more.

We celebrate these songs with a new show that will play on Saturdays at 11am and again at 5pm PST. We will say goodbye to the songs that are now a year on the playlist with one last broadcast, which will be repeated a couple of times during the day.

You can of course still listen to this music - my playlists are still on spotify and you can find them here. They're all searchable as well.

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

I have known for weeks now that English Teacher finally released their new album that I'd feature it, but they have some real competition this week, including Morgan Harper-Jones' new album "Up to the Glass", Maggie Rogers' "Don't Forget Me", Sikane's "We Belong" and damn it there's a new album from Mark Knopfler too!.  But English Teacher's album "This Could Be Texas" (thier first full-length album after a ton of singles and a couple of EPs) is a near masterpiece and you should hear it from start to finish. This is one of England's most exciting new bands in a long long time and they cover topics that only the young, brave, and unfairly stereotyped could do.

The Album Show will run this Thursday April 18th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2416

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday April 17th at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation. .If you want to hear the songs we've added to the station this week you can use the Spotify playlist above or you can listen to this show.

However! This week we are adding an extra song that is not available on Spotify or practically anywhere else for that matter. It's a live recording of Joni Mitchell performing "I'm Still Standing", originally released by Elton John and co-written by Bernie Taupin. LIke last week's Jacob Collier addition, the performance is so good that I have to add it to the rotation. I seriously doubt it will be released as a single and she changed up the song considerably, turning into a slow-burn jazz number. It was part of the Gerishwin Honors and is a one off, although you can find bootleg performances on YouTube. I took the best one of those I could find and remastered it for you, my listeners at Radio Free California.

10 at 10

One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 10pm we will feature our show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11 or even 12!) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST. Last week we featured a selection of songs from 1982 and for next Sunday's show we're going to feature a small selection of songs from.. well you'll have to tune in to find out! We also run the show at a "secret" time on Saturdays.

As always, you can go to https://global.citrus3.com:2020/public/radiofreecalifornia to listen to the station, and there is an imbed below. And did you know the station is available as an app? It's only for Google Play (sorry iphone users - Apples terms and conditions were too restrictive for me) but you can listen on your phone at your convenience too.

Cheap Shots:

No, the Arizona Ruling on abortion did not reset the age of consent to 10 years of age. However, back in the territory days that really was the age of consent. The man who came up with all this was a Pedophile.

I have to wonder, did the brokest millionaire in New York (or Florida) want revenge for Maggie shooting Mr. Burns?

Russia should really zip its pants back up.

Quite frankly I haven't paid any attention to anything done by The New York Times this century.

That little boy in the CD art (remember when we bought stuff and it came with art?) steps into his father's shoes.

No Mr. "Noun-vewrb-nine-eleven", he would have sold them more weapons. The receipts.

I hate to break it to you everyone but Bibi has a very poor record of just "Taking the Win."

I wasn't watching so I missed this: “It was a beautiful song but it ran too long; If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit, so we cut it down to 3:05”

Yeah, I know I know, I'm one of the people who foisted Court TV on the world, but I really don't need this.

The Good Liars are very good at this.

Funny how he keeps committing Election Interference while complaining about others doing it.

Dude, your legacy is that Dewar's Ice Cream sells sandwiches now. If they still do - I haven't been there in 40 years.

You say Deminsion, I say Dementia.... Let's put your ass in jail. (If you've now got a song stuck in your hear you're a true friend).

How the day went, in case you were interested. Apparently I'm not the only one who thought it was a snooze-fest.

Yay! New crimes!

Inching just a little bit closer.

Does he even know that Baron is a high school Senior? As I've demonstrated before, he is what we used to refer to as a lyin' motherfuckin' cocksuckin' son of a bitch. (I betcha Melania had to remind him).

A whole different type of tampering.

And because I love you, have a live performance of Cory Wong with Alexander 23: